Frances O'Flaherty

Frances O'Flaherty was an Irish republican activist during the 1910s.

Biography
Frances O'Flaherty was born in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, an illegitimate orphan. She performed as a theatre actress alongside Elizabeth Butler and May Lacy during the 1910s, but, after World War I broke out in 1914, O'Flaherty came to be politically radicalized as a supporter of the Irish republican cause. By 18 April 1916, she was handing out "No Conscription for Ireland" flyers at the North wall of Dublin Port, even telling Royal Irish Regiment soldiers to come home and stop fighting in England's war and accusing them of being traitors.